On Wednesday 29 June 2005 12:34 pm, Daryl Sanders wrote: > I have seen mostly a one time charge of around $25. I would > personally stay away from anyone wanting to charge a monthly fee.
Exactly. Equally disturbing (to me personally) are companies that build this sort of thing into their monthly fees. If they have a high customer churn rate, then they dont recover their porting costs. Or, if you're a long term customer then you end up paying for it many times over (or worse, paying for the churn). The same goes for "unlimited" plans that have the low-usage customers paying for the high-usage customers that haven't hit the limits on the "unlimited" plans yet. I know that many customers don't get past up-front fees, but still, I personally would prefer to know that a company that I'm dealing with is making a reasonable profit at each step of the way and not likely to evaporate into a bankruptcy court hearing. Especially if they're holding my ported home number. That's why I like (for example) one of Teliax's plan models where I can pay by the minute, pay by the DID and pay for special things like a porting fee or an hourly support rate for truly special support items. At least, I *hope* they're making a profit at each step of the way. > On 6/29/05, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know what a "Standard" porting charge is for porting a > > number to a phone company (as the VoIP provider?). IE.. is it > > normally a recurring monthly charge for each ported number? Is it > > normally a one time port charge (for administrative work, etc)? > > If so.. how much... what has been everyone's experience here? -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
